Dan O’Hair - A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking

NCA Outcome Correlation Grid

NCA Outcome

Relevant coverage in A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking

LOC #1: Describe the communication discipline and its central questions

Coverage of foundational communication concepts begins in , with an overview of the four main categories of human communication and an exploration of the transactional model of communication. Subsequent chapters address core communication competencies, including responsible listening, ethical speech, intercultural awareness, and argument construction.

LOC #2: Employ communication theories, perspectives, principles, and concepts

The text is grounded in current communication theories and scholarship. Each chapter helps students understand and employ key scholarly concepts. These include rhetorical situation (), among many others.

LOC #3: Engage in communication inquiry

The book discusses many critical and scholarly approaches to communication, from the classical canons of rhetoric and classical proofs (). LaunchPad also includes a robust video assessment program that lets students comment on their own speech videos and on professional speech videos from external sources, which further helps students engage in critical inquiry.

LOC #4: Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context

offers strategies for adapting a speech to specific audience types.

LOC #5: Critically analyze messages

offers advice for critically assessing speech sources and includes an extended discussion of the differences between information, propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation. In LaunchPad, the new video assessment program provides ample opportunity for critical analysis: students and instructors can pull video of speeches from anywhere on the web and then engage in conversation.

LOC #6: Demonstrate the ability to accomplish communicative goals (self-efficacy)

discusses barriers that often impede communication self-efficacy and provides step-by-step guidance for overcoming those barriers, from pinpointing the onset of speech anxiety to visualizing success. In LaunchPad, new before and after speech videos show a speaker improving from a rough first attempt to a polished, final speech; students can watch this progression, which helps them achieve their own communication goals.

LOC #7: Apply ethical communication principles and practices

enables students to reflect on and actively engage their own values when considering the role of ethics in the speechmaking process. Included are guidelines for avoiding plagiarism and using ones right to free speech responsibly. The discussion includes other core ethical concepts, such as responsibility, integrity, and respecting the audiences values.

LOC #8: Utilize communication to embrace difference

explains how to speak to diverse audiences while respecting their values. The chapter includes guidelines for speaking to people from different cultures.

LOC #9: Influence public discourse

explain how public speaking can sway listeners opinions and change the public conversation.